The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-05-11
THE LADIES'.
A Budget of Breezy Gossip Re-
lating Exclusively to the
Fair Sex,
Accompanied by Some Notes on the
Ever Changing Styles in
Feminine Attire.
Right as My Glove"

Well, Wen tell you; it wounds most
sadly when in the shape of pair OF worn
gloves. There is nothing hurts a proud,
refined girl like a seedy glove. Pardon us,
but 1t Is loss that cannot be repaired.
A tidy, trim girl can rearrange we'll
worn frock; she will darn her old piece of
necklace; a furnished hat and its rusty
trimmings she can freshen into respectable
ity, and she can even go so far as To manip-
ulate an old pair of boots into good shape;
but pair of disabled gloves breaks her
heart as effectually as that mythical straw
breaks the cameis back.
A pretty girls buoyancy of young spirits
as difficult to cast down: they will bubble
and froth at the slightest stirring but apair
of rough-seamed, mended, and rusty
gloves takes all the sparkle and bead from
her intoxicating enthusiasm.
Again, looking at the question from
another standpoint, you must have noticed
how pair of neat, well-htting gloves
smartens up the most ordinary toilet, Civ
ing the wearer corresponding individu-
atty.
The other evening, at club meeting of
its limited but Iii eliminating members, a
young lady came forward to entertain them
with vocal selection.
Her general appearance was not striking.
Her dress was "A plain, evidently not abso-
lutely fresh, white wool gown. Not an
inch of her rounded arm or throat was yisi-
BILE, and, while we'll fitting in its cut, the
draperies were not particularly artistic or
pleasing in outline to the observers eye.
Now we admit that it Is not absolutely
laid down in the contract that singer Is
paid to look pretty. OF course she must
conquer through her ability to charm the
ear; bat her battle is much more easily
80 har op1ian0a'c first
tured, any observer of such events readily
admits.
This young lady came up to the scratch
only through the power of her gloves.
Her hands were shapely, therefore 1t was
entirely proper to make them conspicuous.
They were apparently nodded into per-
fect-fitting pair of long Suede gloves in
that fresh and stylish new shade of green.
There is no more pleasing combination
than this new shade of green with white,
and her tapering fingers and finely rounded
wrists could never have been more fas-
cinating to the artistic eye than so COW
cred, while altogether that perfect pair of
gloves gave the requisite flavor to the whole
toilet, which otherwise could not have
arisen above mediocrity.
There have been of late chapters written
about character in hands. The story of a
character is none the less plainly told in
the gloves worn.
Show me the gloves you wear, and I'll
tell you what you are, is not literal, but
plausible.
Did you ever take long street-car ride
and spend the tedious time philosophizing
over the gloves your fellow passengers
wear?
If You haven't, just try it next opportu-
nifty you have. You Will find the pastime
most edifying.
Perhaps you will see pair of hands,
snug up in the front corner seat, encased
in heavy, ordinary looking, at first
glance, dogskins. They are, regardless of
splitting seams, held with fingers inter-
laced. This alone pushes them we'll on
the hands, for they seem to have been SIM
ply slipped into, the one patent fastening
not in use, which shows that the wearer is
q man accustomed to gloves, so does so from
force of habit; but his mind is so busily
occupied he does not give them the atten-
ton required to fasten them.
Just across, a pair of hands hourishes
only one glove, which is handsomely en-
broidered and very tight in its fit. The
bare hand tells that ii is not long since the
wedding, because that new ring adjoining it
is ever twisted around and adroitly admired
with an unconscious knack of caressing.
That one new, shiny glove has bride writ
ten upon 1t as plainly as if it were white
satin bonnet.
Beyond is a pair of short-in- the wrist
black silk gloves, covering nervous, bony
hands. They tightly grasp the small
wooden handle of cotton umbrella.
There is mental, if not bodily, pain ex-
pressed ID the twitchings of those wrinkled
glove fingers.
How great the contrast between them and
apair of fluffy puff balls-baby plump fists
in a pair of silk mittens, Just disclosing
soft, fat, deeply ringed wrists.
You know that pair of worn gloves be-
longs to a seams,ress on the way to her
work. The end of the first finger is ripped,
and there is an honorable little bit of nut
meg crater on the side of the finger that
works so hard.
Over there is a man who seems intent on
hiding his gloves. His elbows are akimbo,
and all of his gloved hands are in his pock-
cts except his thumbs. But they tell the
whole story.
They are great, stubby, coarse kidded
thumbs. They must belong to the kind of
hand that little Jack Horner made sticky
with lis own pie in his own corner, grown
into big Jack Homer, with Partially
still for pies, and plums, and all the good
things OF the world.
There is small pair of hands twitching.
lou can tell III DaSeS ltS clalmS 10 Delng
aristocratic upon its gloves. Alas poor
hands! The gloves are there, but what
sad tales we rea1 in their breaks, rubs and
corkscrews at the tips.
But we have wandered q long way from
the trials of an unfortunate girl with the pair
of poverty singing, orn-out gloves. But
we have yet our idea TO suggest for the amel-
ioration of her woes.
Nearly every day we hear of some wealthy
man or woman with so much money they
don't know how to spend. It's an old idea
to found a picture gallery, endow hospital
or asylum, or build a monument; but il
would be consummately unique to estab-
lish an inexhaustible fund for providing
those soul-yearning young ladies with good
gloves.
Think of the pleasure unreasonable
such a philanthropy would give, the
wrinkled brows it would smooth, the hear
envyngs it would silence: while at the
same time how its providings would
brighten and smarter up the community a
large.
All the pretty girls in fresh snug gloves
We love all of them, and we hereby peti
ton for the fruition of such q consumma
tion.-Annie h. Myers, in Chicago Ledger
Miss spangicr's Strange SinguIarities.